By Farooq A. Kperogi This is far and away the most difficult piece I’ve ever had to write in my entire life. At first I had neither the...

By Farooq A. Kperogi Coined by Scottish lexicographer  James Murray , back-formation is said to occur when speakers of a language inven...

By Farooq A. Kperogi What appears below was first published in three installments in my language column in the (Nigerian) People's Dai...

We all clearly love stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things, as these emails show. What follows is only a sample of the scor...

By Farooq A. Kperogi   Continued from last week 2.  Adagbo Onoja . A few people probably know this mild-mannered, even-tempered, ad...